My fave best ofs/Greatest Hits are.. The Spencer Davis Group Eight Gigs A week Blondie Greatest Hits The Complete Animals Iron Maiden The First 10 years box set ACDC Crown Jewels The Essential Judas Priest Voodoo Child The Best of Jimi Hendix The John Lennon Collection Transvision Vamp Kiss Their Sons Sex Pistols Kiss This The Best of UFO Classic Yes Led Zep Remasters Who's Better Who's Best Black Sabbath Greatest Hits The Stones GRRR! Deep Purple Deepest Purple Echoes The Best of Pink Floyd Very Best of Fleetwood Mac The Very Best of Cream Pat Benatar Greatest Hits Shocking Blue As & Bs Aaliyah I Care 4 U All Saints All Hits If you can count it... The Beatles Rock N Roll Music Vol 1 & 2
The Four Seasons' 3-CD box that came out c. 1989, 18 tracks on each (and I don't even listen much to the third disc).
I rarely listen to compiles anymore, but I have a few favourites greatest hits/best of type releases. Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy - The Who Eagles volume one The Elvis Golden Records albums 1-4 Echo And The Bunneymen- Songs To Learn And Sing Bob Marley - Legend New Order - Substance Neil Young - Decade Generally I am going to listen to a bands albums. These best of albums still stand a chance of being played though.
Peter Paul and Mary - (Ten) Years Together and Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits Also The Beach Boys' Endless Summer.
There are a lot of greatest hits albums for The Band floating around out there. This one is, by far, my favorite and is one of my favorite overall "greatest hits" albums. The Band ~ The Definitive Collection
The Cure - Standing On A Beach Neil Young - Decade Carpenters - Only Yesterday (Greatest Hits) ABBA - Gold Squeeze - 45s And Under Those are probably all you need ;-)
Bak in the day when money was tight ... The Free Story The Temptations Anthology 24 Carat Purple Best Of Cream Jimi Smash Hits Made In The Shade Yesterdays Best Of Budgie The Beatles 1967-70 Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy Best Of The Doobie Brothers Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits all figured in my collection in a big way
Hall and Oates - The Singles Best of Bowie CCR - Chronicle Vol. 1 and 2 Brian Adams - Anthology Whitesnake Greatest Hits Whitney Houston - Ultimate Collection The Ultimate Bee Gees The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers Wilson Phillips Greatest Hits Al Stewart Greatest Hits
The only Pat Benatar album I ever owned was Get Nervous (on a Columbia House cassette). But her 3-disc greatest hits collection - Synchronistic Wanderings - gives me all the Benatar I could ever need (and more!). And it's compactly-designed. And it has a great booklet.
The Sky is Crying – Elmore James Greatest Hits 1&2 – Linda Ronstadt Retrospective – Leon Russell Excello – Slim Harpo Singles Album – Manfred Mann
The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy Elvis Presley -Elvis' Golder Records The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) Simon and Garfunkel - The Best of Simon and Garfunkel Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits The Dave Clark 5 - History of the Dave Clark 5 The Byrds - The Byrds Greatest Hits
I want to mention that I like almost every regular studio album from these artists. Nevertheless, such compilations are nice to have for an easy listening session The Beatles - 1962-1966 & 1967-1970 Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits Queen - Greatest Hits ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits Hall & Oates - Rock ‚N‘ Soul Part 1 The Jam - Snap! Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume 1 & 2 The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks The Very Best Of Steely Dan History Of The Byrds
The Byrds Greatest Hits...recall how Paul Williams wrote a terrific piece on the record delineating how such a collection can actually create a world of its very own comparable to a 'regular' album of brand-new material.
Growing up as a teenager in the 60’s I needed to stretch my money and greatest hits albums did that. I limited myself to only 60’s era greatest hits. Several members list made me think of these. Gene Pitney’s Greatest Hits Johnny Rivers Golden Hits Temptations Greatest Hits Vol 1 Four Tops Greatest Hits Rolling Stones High Tide and Green Grass The Best of the Animals Bob Dylan Greatest Hits 1967
America - the Definitive America Dionne Warwick - 20 Golden Greats but I think George Michael's Ladies and Gentlemen compilation set a new standard for compilations. If only it had I Want Your Sex part 1, instead of part 2, it would be perfect.
